English: Pony Express Historic Marker at the Old Julesburg - Overland City stop on the South Platte Historic Tour Route (Sedgewick County). Local Road 28, east of Ovid.
"The Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company" started using the Platte River Route from Leavenworth, Kansas to Denver, Colorado by August of 1859. A new station was built here at the Junction serving both Salt Lake City going to the northwest and Denver to the southwest. Located 1,212 feet north, "Julesburg" was named after Jules Bent their First Station Agent.
In February of 1860 a new company known as "The Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Express Company", the future Pony Express Company; too over all of the assets and routes of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company.
Due to trouble with Jules, he was fired and the New Company changed the name of the station to "Overland City". By 1862, the station name was again known as "Julesburg".
2007 Joe Nardone
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.